Duda
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Duda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common surname. In Polish, recorded as bagpipe.
- PLPoland1 in 1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 55K
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8Kas Дуда
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Duda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
36,592 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Дуда in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bagpipe
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Duda is read(measured from records)
Duda is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English47%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duda in English.
- Polish15%
bagpipe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.3%
a diminutive of the male given name Eduardo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duda in German.
- Ukrainian5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duda in Ukrainian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #37 | 36,592 | 1 in 1K | 18K | Duda | 147 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 670 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 6,034 | 1 in 55K | 6.1K | Duda | 128 |
| UA Ukraine | #836 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Дуда | 40 |
| CZ Czechia | #448 | 2,364 | 1 in 4.5K | 2.4K | Duda | 70 |
| SK Slovakia | #201 | 1,118 | 1 in 4.9K | 1.1K | Duda | 49 |
| NO Norway | — | 292 | 1 in 19K | 292 | Duda | 10 |
36,592 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Duda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "whistle."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Maltese, alternative form of dudu (“worm”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, widower; a man who has lost his wife whether by divorce or through her death
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of dudă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jerzy Duda-Graczb. 1941PLPolish painter (1941–2004)
- Jan Dudab. 1949PLPolish electrical engineer, IT specialist and local government official
- Alexander Dudab. 1955DEGerman actor and voice actor
- Radu, Prince Consort of Romaniab. 1960ROnot in their usual nameRomanian Royal
- Andrzej Dudab. 1972PLpolitician and lawyer, president of Poland from 2015 to 2025
- Agata Kornhauser-Dudab. 1972PLFirst Lady of the Republic of Poland
- Elisabeth Dudab. 1978FRactress
- Lucas Dudab. 1986USAmerican baseball player
- Ondrej Dudab. 1994SKSlovak association football player
- Jan-Krzysztof Dudab. 1998PLPolish chess grandmaster
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18K | #56 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18K | #52 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,225 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6K | #5,743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.9K | #5,709 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.4K | #467 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 2.4K | #466 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2.4K | #466 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.1K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 292 | #5,244 |
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Duda mean, and where does it come from?
- bagpipe Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Duda have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Duda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duda.
- Where is Duda most common?
- Duda is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Duda?
- In the etymology graph, Dado is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Duda?
- In Poland, the national register counted 36,592 people named Duda in 2026, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Duda compared with other names?
- In Poland, Duda is the 37th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Duda” — the 37th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.